Chapter 68. To ratify the reservation of certain lands made for t he benefit of Oklahoma Territory, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 68.— An Act To ratify the reservation of certain lands made for t he benefit of Oklahoma Territory, and for other purposes.May 4, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Oklahoma.Lands reserved for educational and building purposes ratified. That the reservation for university, agricultural college, and normal school purposes, of section thirteen in each township, of the lands known as the Cherokee Outlet, the Tonkawa Indian Reservation, and the Pawnee Indian Reservation, in the Territory of Oklahoma, not otherwise reserved or disposed of, and the reservation for public buildings of section thirty-three in each township of said lands, not otherwise disposed of, made by the President of the United States in his proclamation of August nineteenth,*Post*, p. 1229. eighteen hundred and ninety-three, be, and the same are hereby, ratified, and all of said lands and all of the school lands in said Territory may be leased under such laws and regulations as may be hereafter Leases.prescribed by the legislature of said Territory; but until such legislative action the governor, secretary of the Territory, and superintendent of public instruction shall constitute a board for the leasing of said lands under the rules and regulations heretofore prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, for the respective purposes for which the said reservations were made, except that it shall not be necessary to submit said leases to the Secretary of the Interior for bis approval: and all necessary expenses and costs incurred in the leasing, management, andExpenses. protection of said lands and leases may be paid out of the proceeds derived from such leases.
Approved, May 4, 1894.